Were Were There, August 15, 2018
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Lower Manhattan Worker Jeanette G., and World Trade Center Survivor Desiree B. share their personal stories of September 11th in the 9/11 Tribute Museum's presentation of We Were There on stage at the National September 11th Memorial Museum.
Jeanette was working in 3 World Financial Center on September 11th. She left the building after the second plane hit the South Tower to meet up with her sister who also worked downtown. She speaks of the lobby of her office building being used as a triage area, so she witnessed many injured people as she exited her building. Jeanette and her sister made it home to Staten Island much later that day.
After the first plane struck the North Tower, Desiree called her mother who insisted that she leave her office (which was on the 101st floor of the South Tower) Desiree obeyed and was about a block away when Flight 175 hit the South Tower. She walked to a friend's office in Midtown, calling her mother again on the way to let her know she made it out. The next day, when she got home, she learned that she had lost 19 friends and colleagues from her floor.
As a survivor of the South Tower, it is actually oddly comforting to hear their stories. I can feel isolated and removed from this shared experience. Thank you from the very bottom of my heart.
How are u today? Are u still living in the n.y area?
How are you?! I’m glad to see you’re alive and well
@@solo.life.travels7215 The first few years were tough and I was nearly homeless. Things started to turn around in 2005. In 2007 I moved to Idaho. I still have PTSD, but my life has improved.
@@superbeachmonkey I'm so greatful that things turned around!
From Boston area. I will never forget and think of the terror the survivors suffer though every year. I watch everything I can every year. Hope you are ok now. Godspeed.
RIP to everyone who lost there lives. God bless America!
18 years on its still heartbreaking. I can feel their pain. God bless
This is one of the most intense stories i've heard in this series. The emotion is still so raw for these speakers.
I hate they told a lot of people to stay put. I am so glad they made it an my heart literally hurts for those who didnt🥺
May God give all the survivors the strength to heal.
Hard to grasp that this was almost 20 years ago. I remember it. I was 11 years old. I remember what clothes i was wearing, i remember it coming on tv as "breaking news" with the first tower in flames. Then i watched as the second plane came into view and hit the second. I didn't leave the tv. Even at that young age, 1000s of miles away in the uk watching this, it wasn't lost on me i was seeing people die and witnessing something terrible unfold live infront of the world on t.v. i knew it would be bad, but almost 3000 people died, i dont think anyone expected it to be that bad.
I was 18 and in Ukraine, sitting next to my grandparents, watching everything on tv bawling my eyes out ...I couldn't speak for 2 weeks after what happened ..its like it was my personal experience and I was the one who survived this ordeal ,but dead Inside , at the same time...almost 20 years later and I'm still shocked and pained ..shows how humans really are connected with each other!
chelsea greer time just flies bye
Actually in the US, we thought it would be worse. Almost 50,000 people worked in those two buildings. Thank you for recognizing how horrific it was. I hope it never happens again anywhere in the world.
I had just turned 12 a few days before.. sitting in math class when the announcement came over the intercom. I don’t remember exactly what it said, but I remember the teacher turning on the news and us all watching in horror. We saw the second tower get hit live, at which point the teacher turned the tv off and we were sent home early from school. Even in Tennessee, we were terrified. It was clear we were under attack, but as a child, it’s hard to rationalize that. We also live within a few miles of Y-12, where parts of the atomic bombs were made, and other industrial plants around the county. My dad and step-dad both worked at Y-12, so I was terrified that their location would be targeted in an attempt to disable our weapons production abilities. I can even remember in the months later when we invaded Afghanistan- I remember the vehicles rolling in and just thinking to myself “omg this is it, we’re actually going to war but it’s not too late to turn back.. I have faith that something can happen at the last moment and we can stop all this madness!” The naivety and innocence of my 12 year old self died that day 💔🖤
I was 21 went to the Yankees game night before, got rained out! Went to friends in Astoria Queens to watch Monday night football and Went to smoke on his roof at like 1 in the morning and admired the twin towers ! Was stuck in traffic for hours listening to it on radio try to get home on longisland! Saw many firetruck s heading to the wtc and smelled fuel in qeens!
Thank you both for sharing. Also Judith's voice can put me to sleep :)
I am from Virginia, about 20-25 minutes from DC and had quite a few loved ones at the Pentagon on 9/11. Thankfully they all survived, 3 had severe injuries but they were alive. I was 15 on the day of the attacks and I will never forget that day or the days to follow.
brave ladies.
I sang in carnegie hall as a 7th grader with my choir in 1993, we walked by these buildings and they were the biggest buildings we'd ever seen, we were all dumbstruck as we were from a dinky town. These buildings were massive. It's honestly unbelievable after all these years we thought tens of thousands of people died. I mean, there were tons of people going in and out of that building all day, it was across the street from where we stayed. I have an entire roll of film looking up at these buildings!! I was too scared to visit the observatory up there. I was scared of how big the building was after we visited the Empire State Bldg my legs didn't work so well. I think some people are just not cut out for tall buildings. When we saw what happened on TV, we believed it was MUCH worse, it's surprising after being there that they were able to save thousands of people. New York City is an amazing city, the people, the life, they did not deserve this. People were very kind to me as a child there.
Hey whomever runs this channel, just a heads up that the title is mispelled on this one. Just wanted to let you know ❤
Not yet bourn😢
Wow and fair is onto building?😮
I hear many times people mentioning there were 99 elevators in each tower. As is ninety-nine? That's an insane amount of elevator shaft. Am I misunderstanding something? Can someone clarify.
Yes, it is true, 99 elevators.
If you look up a diagram on Google, you'll see how it worked. The elevators didn't all go from the basement to the top floor. You would take segments or express elevators. Most of them ended at a level where you got off and found the elevator that went to a higher level.
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So u did get sceard ?
Wat u did go out ?
I wasn't "watching on TV."
I was in the air, being threatened by our own military to "land ASAP or your aircraft will be shot down."
Even tho no one (including myself once I think a step further) sees that as kind of a "rude" response, because they immediately understand why, I've never been able to discard my first instinctive reaction to it; I thought I was having a night-terrors nightmare because of my damaged brainwave I knew they'd found in 1983 and all the other neurological problems they had yet to find, but which I've always known existed and cause serious sleep-to-waking problems. Someone on the plane stopped me from continuing to try waking myself, saying "You're not dreaming. We all heard it too."
Someone else in the background, saying, "They have the military out? Someone's going to pay for this shnit."
A woman replied "It sounds like it's going to be US, but we haven't done anything!"
Suddenly mass pandemonium exploded inside the plane. Even while we went into a holding pattern over Chicago, nobody could remain calm. They had just told our pilot, "Land or be shot from the air."
How're you supposed to become the picture of calmness afterward?
I had to take 3 more Dramamine, because I have terrible motion sickness.
Were Were Where? Were Were Thare
Sound like drown taking are picture
Did she dai sad😢
I dont get it.. how did you get out of the tower after it got hit and you were on 101 if the plane hit on 78-80?
She took an express elevator down to the street just a few minutes before the plane hit her building (the second building to be hit). Stairwell A was also passable in the second building to be hit, but most people didn’t know this. Look at the story about Stanley and Brian who escaped through the stairs from above the impact. Just search for Stanley and Brian, 9-11, and you’ll find several videos.
Also, some stairwells were accessible if they didn’t happen to be in the direct path of the impact, amazingly.
She was in the south tower , the north tower was hit , she got out of the south tower just before the south got hit.
she got out of the south tower before it got hit.
First woman who spoke, Janette, was in a building across the street; not WTC.
Doing attack wo😢
Stairway A
Do u cry wen she dai?
If i wer u I jump
THEY ARE LADIES OR WOMEN!
Judith poochie speak up. Stop whispering
Shut up
Pucci
The second womans story seems very unlikely
I think our minds protect us, keep us sane. The 1st lady said it best
Your life seems unlikely
Keep your immaturity and judgement to yourself.